I wasted so many hours today on recovering from a migraine...

I wasted so many hours today on recovering from a migraine; hours that I should have been working on my 10-page paper.  ☹️  Stress got to me and now I'm even more behind.  😭

I woke up at 6:30 with a tension headache brewing.  Thought food, a Tylenol / Ibuprofen combo, and time with my favorite girl would take care of it.  I asked Kira to breakfast since I haven't seen her much this week due to the volume of homework I've had.  Got to Panera and the smell of food made me barf.  Nibbled my breakfast sandwich after that.  Couldn't even.  Then we went home and I went to bed.

I finally felt ok enough to get up about 30 minutes ago.  Just finished my breakfast sandwich and I guess I need to hustle up on my paper.  I'm really sad because I slept through Abstract Algebra and I desperately did NOT need to miss that class.  It's the one I'm doing the worst in.

Anyway, I'm off.  I hope I can finish the draft of my paper by this time tomorrow (when it's due).  If not, I'm going to have messed up in Seminar, as well.  I will be so glad when I'm done with school.  I'm so tired of the stress and the nightmares.  It's rough on me and my body.  😔

Dang.

Dang. Despite being in long sleeves, long pants, and wearing sunblock, I got too much sun walking to class. I feel drained and have chills. I think I'm legit gonna have to carry an umbrella for shade. 😟

I'm procrastinating doing my paper.

I'm procrastinating doing my paper.  But I'm going to tell you something fun about math, so... I mean, I'm kinda doing mathy-stuff, ok?

So if you have a fraction in lowest terms, (like 1/8 instead of 2/16)

with a denominator (bottom number) that is a prime factorization of 2 or 5 or any combination of 2 and 5,

(the prime factors of 8 are 2 x 2 x 2 which is 2 cubed or 2^3)

then you automatically know that when the fraction is turned into a decimal that it will terminate (not repeat or go on forever).

You also know how many places after the decimal it will end because it will be the higher power or 2 or 5.

In the case of 1/8, we only have 2 with a power of 3 and the decimal terminates after 3 places at 0.125.

How cool is that?!  😲😲😲

There is more, but I'll save it for another day if anyone even cares about this.  😆

If you're up for it test this out by making fractions with denominators from multiples of 2 or 5 or any combination of 2 and 5 and see if you can come up with one that doesn't work.  😁  Don't forget that the fraction has to be reduced to lowest terms!

I have a helper...

I have a helper while working on my 10 - page math paper. Bastian feels the same way I do: Blegh! 😝😳

I spent 12 hours doing math homework yesterday.

I spent 12 hours doing math homework yesterday.  I've done a ton of organizing and reading for my 10-page paper that I have to have a draft ready for on Thursday.  I'm about to finish the math I started yesterday and call it a night.  I am so tired.

I keep having dreams about getting my degrees.  I'm so scared of failing and / or taking longer in school because my family is depending on me and getting a job would change so much for us.  I'm so close and yet at times when I'm struggling with my work and my grades, it feels so far away.  But May is only 8 months away, so that really isn't long.

I was talking to Shaun today and he said that my growth has been amazing.  I feel it.  No matter what happens I know that college has changed me for the better.  My Math professor said that if you can do math, you can do anything and I feel that, too.  I feel like understanding math opens up everything.  I see it everywhere.  It's so beautiful.

Regardless of what happens I am so grateful that I've been able to go on this college journey.  It would not have been possible without Shaun and without friends and family supporting me.  I just hope I don't let myself and everyone else down.  I don't think I'll believe I can do this until I've graduated and done it.

Anyway.  Goodnight, friends.  I hope you all are doing well.  ❤

Apparently the calculator that's built in to my phone is amazing.

Apparently the calculator that's built in to my phone is amazing. This is a repeating decimal and I've scrolled past 10,000 decimal places. 😳 Too bad I can't use it for exams. 😂😂😂

I know it's early to be worrying about failure, but...

I know it's early to be worrying about failure, but I have to be prepared. I just spoke to my professor about my bad grades in Abstract Algebra and he said that I'm not the only one who is struggling. He also said he's up for going over our homework for us before we turn it in, so believe me when I say I'm about to take advantage of that! Worst case, they offer Abstract again in the spring and I have space in my schedule to retake it if I need to without delaying graduation. Phew! I won't even be mad if I have to take it twice. Writing mathematical proofs is hard! 😩